On our campus all cleaning supplies are purchased centrally by our housekeeping vendor. We are struggling with how to assign cost for purchases in an individual building as we don't track purchases per building or which items are used in each building. I believe we need to document a "worst case scenario" but I'm looking for help on what we would need to supply. Breaking down the cost per square foot per building? Cost per FTE per building? Likely noncompliant purchases per space as a percentage of sq ft per building? (e.g. 5% of the building is bathrooms and showers where we use non-compliant products - even if that was 100%, we would still comply)
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Megan Meiklejohn
Sustainability Operations Director, East CoastHealthy Buildings
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June 12, 2012 - 2:06 pm
Hi Emily, Since you have no way of knowing which products were purchased specifically for your project building, I would document this credit just as you would for any other project. Since this credit is calculating the percentage of green products based on costs, it doesn't matter if you allocate a half, a third, etc. of the each product's costs to the project building or not, the resulting green product percentage will be the same. It would be a good idea to send an inquiry to the GBCI to receive confirmation that this or any other alternative compliance path you choose is acceptable before submitting the project for review.